This week I have watched a little known 2013 movie
called Snowpiercer. Set in the future, the film is about the last train in the
world after the planet freezes.
Snowpiercer travels on a non stop loop of the
world while the passengers live on in a self-sustained eco-system. But the film
is about the disgruntled second class passengers (who are kept in squalid
conditions) who embark on a revolution to get to the front of the train.
Before I go any further I do appreciate the initial
concept is very farfetched and raised a lot of questions. Well if you were
expecting those and basic engineering questions to be answered at all…you’d be
completely and utterly wrong. But once you move away from that and only focus
on the class struggle of the film - which is the entire purpose - it actually
is pretty solid for a movie.
Also, for such an unknown film, this has a lot of
famous people in it. Chris Evans (Captain America) plays Curtis, the leader of
the underclass; his mentor is John Hurt and his sidekick is Billy Elliot. With
such big names starring in the movie and also giving great performances, it’s
surprising this film wasn’t as big as it was.
The action is pretty much constant and the settings
in each carriage are impressive. One carriage is designed to look like a school
while another is an aquarium. You genuinely don’t know what to expect until the
characters get there.
Snowpiercer however is not for the faint hearted. It
is very gory and does not cut away from brutal deaths or injuries like most
films do. This is not something you should watch with your kids.
Snowpiercer gets 7/10.
I watched this last night. It was very unique. And even though it's hard to believe the setting, you do get into it and it's hard to stop watching. I wasn't that crazy about the ending. But I thought Captain America did an impressive job as the lead :)
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